Toshiba T3100/20 Analysis and repair
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- Опубліковано 18 січ 2024
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I picked this up cheap from an ewaste recycling center, I have no idea of its operational condition or what needs done to it, so lets find out and see if we can fix it! - Наука та технологія
That Plasma dispay is georgous.
What a super interesting hard drive design. I love how deep you went with it.
This was my first "true computer" I ever had. Mine was maybe model 3100e/40. It had a standard IDE HDD (80M Conner it was) that was set in BIOS as 20M. To my surprise, it could work with 40M setting also. When I found that the HDD had in fact 80M capacity, I used Ontrack Disk Manager to use it to its full capacity. I did not had the test/setup programs, however, I remember that I was somehow able to get in the BOIS setup by pressing some key combination at boot.Inside it was as you said, a PC crammed in that small form factor, only that myine was more standard with no proprietary epansion connectors.
My unit had a standard ISA 8bit slot and 30pin DRAM chips that I maxed to 5M (4x1M but I seem to remember -maybe wrong - that 2M 30pin RAM sticks also worked there, however no 4M one worked). I used in that ISA slot (that was unpopulated when I got it) anything I had at hand at the time (modem, sound card, VGA adapter) and some worked, some not (they mostly were 16bit ISA boards). The reason I stopped using it was the plasma display, it started to show stripes to the point that was unusable and I didi not had an exernal monitor (that is that main reason why I tried to get a VGA card to work with it). I played games in CGA and Hercules (with some program that emulated Hercules on CGA video) and mostly at the time I used to code in Pascal. I did not tried Windows on it, only dos 6.22 and the next step in my computing experience was for a brief period a 386SX.
What a lovely machine! Also, so fun that you finally have an old Toshiba with a working floppy drive lol.
I used to have one of those. It was great but I later sold it to a collector as I didn't have space for it. I loved the display...
What a wild drive design! That's awesome!
Dig it! Watched at 1.75 speed and enjoyed it all!
Wow very good getting to that hardrive problem
I'm in aww of that hard drive.
Wow, great video! I have the 3100e and it's completely different. I thought they would be the same but they aren't. I have 4x 30 pin SIMM sockets in mine but you seem to have some type of memory expansions port. I also was able to install a IDE to compact flash card but I had to flip the IDE connector.
I just bought the only factory modem/serial expansion card I’ve for one of these ever seen for sale on eBay, standalone or installed on a machine. I hope you weren’t the competing bidder…
No I was definitely not the competing bidder, matter of fact it's been a while since I've actually used eBay faithfully
Just recapped my T3200SX and it went south - most of the PSU caps were found to be leaking, and were all replaced - the logic and IO board caps were also replaced, now the damn thing won't turn on! I am working with someone to buy a complete running parts unit that I can use to isolate where the fault is, so hopefully, it'll live again.
Yikes! That doesn't sound fun. These Toshibas can be a pain in the ass sometimes. I have a t1200 that's kicking my ass
Someone commented on a similar video saying that the big battery is the shut down battery but I don't know what that means. And they said the smaller battery was for the settings.
Dang, what a shame about that hard drive, but who would have guessed such a crazy-- but kind of ingenious-- design was lurking inside?
Is the thing the bottom of a grinder? lol
Also i did a quick search and found someone thats made a cf adaptor for this.
Also a lot of information about the ram expansion i think its definitely possible.
I cant believe that screen is still good.
any tips if all you get are some random orange dots on the plasma screen?
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